Lotte

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Lotito in LA Laos.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Lotte is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name2.6K records spelled Lotte4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, Brazil, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Lốtẗe

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Lotte is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, ) Lotta: weibl. Vom., beliebte

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Reduced form of CHARLOTTE.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Norwegian Nynorsk, a member of a female paramilitary organization

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In French, burbot (a freshwater fish, Lota lota)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, burbot (fish)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 64 years between 1956–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Lotte Lehmannb. 1888DEGerman soprano (1888–1976)
• Lotte Reinigerb. 1899DEGerman silhouette animator and film director (1899–1981)
• Lotte Ulbrichtb. 1903DEGerman politician (1903-2002)
• Lotte Stam-Beeseb. 1903NLDutch architect, photographer, and urban planner (1903–1988)
• Lotte Wæverb. 1942DKDanish actress
• Lotta Tejleb. 1960SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress and singer
• Lotte Verbeekb. 1982NLDutch actress
• Lotte Friisb. 1988DKDanish swimmer
• Lotte van Beekb. 1991NLDutch speed skater
• Lotte Kopeckyb. 1995BEBelgian cyclist

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 376 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lotte?

We estimate roughly 35 thousand people bear Lotte (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Lotte have the most bearers?

We estimate about 22 thousand people bear Lotte in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lotte.

Where is Lotte most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lotte is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 731 people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.

How common is Lotte compared with other names?

In the Netherlands, Lotte is the 189th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.

Is Lotte a male or female name?

Lotte is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Lotte mean?

Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Charlotte